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EEMBC Polishes Ye Olde Whetstone
To paraphrase Mark Twain, there are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. People have been fudging their benchmark results for as long as there have been…
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Time Trials
OK, show of hands – who is currently working on a project that is behind schedule? (And, what are you doing here reading, then? Get…
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Software Is In Style
System-on-chip (SoC) verification is dominated by hardware verification languages and methodologies. Because you’re verifying hardware. Duh. But, by definition, SoCs have processors that will run…
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Freescale Gets All Steampunk with Kinetis E
It’s been said that if you just wait long enough, everything becomes fashionable again. Wide neckties, short skirts, vinyl records… they all had their heyday…
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Embedded Vision on Mobile Devices
Courtesy of service provider subsidies coupled with high shipment volumes, relatively inexpensive smartphones and tablets supply formidable processing capabilities: multi-core GHz-plus CPUs and graphics processors,…
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Looping the Law
Moore’s Law tells us that we should be able to double the number of transistors on a chip every couple of years. And, for about…
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Context Matters
Computing engines have always been considered pretty dumb. Even when they’re in our smart phones. The classic articulation of this is the fact that they…
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Two Great Tastes That Go Great Together
It’s the end of another fiscal quarter for Microsoft, and time once again to engage in a little game I like to call, “Let’s Beat…
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The Condensed Guide to Silicon Circuit Boards
Foreword by Kevin Morris Have you noticed that there is no Moore’s Law for circuit boards? Sure, we have seen some gradual improvement in PCB…
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Sending Out an SOS
When doing your undergrad work in electrical engineering in college, you focus on what’s mainstream. If you’re studying semiconductors, that would mean silicon and CMOS.…